The 15:17 to Paris I'm kind of surprised that the Cahiers guys didn't go revisionist and put this in their top ten of the year. I mean, they did with True Crime back in the day. (Which has some of Eastwood's best stuff right alongside some of his absolute worst.) I feel like maybe part of my job he...

The Mule is also a big question mark. I can’t imagine they need to give Bradley Cooper a supporting win when he’s so clearly far ahead in the leading race. I'm not really expecting it, except maybe as a contingency to get Bradley Cooper in the winner's circle in the event that the critics and TV aw...

I'd put Elliot and Adam Driver ahead of, or at least on equal footing with, Chalamet. I'm not ruling him out completely; I just think that the combination of mixed reviews and a non-start at the box-office, he'll need either a really good campaign from Amazon, or he'll need to get rescued by the cri...

I'm mixed, leaning positive, although I suspect the film itself will be the subject of an episode of the podcast "This Had Oscar Buzz" about six months from now. (Although Steve Carrel's OTHER 2018 movie-- Welcome to Marwen --seems like a better bet.) I think that the narrative structure i...

I kind of agree on Outlaw King . I think the story of Robert the Bruce is a good one, but a two-hour movie was the wrong format unless Mackenzie wanted to focus in on one specific aspect of the larger story (like Spielberg did with Lincoln ). And it may just be me, but I thought it was off-puttingly...

As Netflix has moved away from classic movies, Amazon Prime is really upping their game. Most of the movies added are things that most here will have seen, but it's a wide array, from Ragtime to Klute to The Big Country , and tons of others, many of which haven't been released on Blu-Ray, but they'l...

American Animals May be more-or-less a Wikipedia Movie (TM Sabin), with the twist that the narrative is intercut with interviews with the real-life participants and their families, but it's an entertaining one. For those who don't know, this is a true story of four young college students who decide...

Saw it last night and admired it even more. But it was in a small theater in my town (I usually ride over to Huntsville for movies), with thin, not very well-insulated walls. So at the exact moment where Armstrong steps down onto the surface of the moon, the soundtrack goes silent, and we get a feel...